Nurse Lead Hospital at Home

Are you an experienced, dynamic and compassionate clinical leader looking to shape the future of urgent community care? We are seeking an exceptional Lead Nurse to join our expanding Hospital at Home service - a pioneering model delivering hospital level care in the comfort of patients' own homes.

You will provide expert clinical leadership across the Hospital at Home service, ensuring safe, effective and person centred care for adults with acute and complex needs. Working as part of a triumvirate leadership model, you will collaborate with operational and medical leads to drive quality, innovation and workforce development.

This pivotal senior role will influence our strategic direction, champion clinical excellence, and support the continued transformation of community based urgent and acute care.

You will be:

• A registered nurse with substantial post registration experience, including managing complex clinical caseloads.
• An inspiring leader with experience supporting diverse multidisciplinary teams.
• Confident in high acuity decision making and risk management in community or acute settings.
• Passionate about transforming care and enabling people to receive safe, effective treatment at home.
• Able to influence, motivate and shape a positive culture across a growing workforce.

In line with the Trust's Organisational Change Management Policy, priority consideration will be given to employees who have been identified as at risk.

Main duties of the job

• Provide visible clinical leadership to nursing teams across all localities.
• Ensure high standards of assessment, clinical decision making and personalised care planning.
• Lead on quality improvement, governance and patient safety across the service.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, ACPs, therapists, paramedics and system partners.
• Support delivery of pathways including frailty, respiratory, heart failure, infection management and 2 hour UCR response.
• Drive clinical supervision, competency frameworks and professional development.
• Contribute to service strategy, workforce planning and innovation.
• Represent the service at Trust level governance and system wide meetings.
• Promote a culture of empowerment, accountability and continuous improvement.

About us

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.

You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff.

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities.

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages.

We don't want you to miss out so we'd like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close before the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now.

Job description Role summary

• Leading the nursing workforce, including triage and remote monitoring teams.
• Collaborating with locality managers to optimise face to face care delivery.
• Shaping service transformation through proactive care models and integrated pathways.
• Overseeing recruitment, retention and professional development of clinical staff.
• Promoting innovation, quality improvement and best practice in patient care.
• Building strong partnerships with stakeholders and representing at system level forum.
• Ensuring compliance with governance, policy updates and continuous performance improvement.

Role accountabilities

• Provide visible, proactive nursing leadership within the Triumvirate, ensuring safe, high quality care and contributing to the strategic direction of the service.
• Line manage the nursing triage team and remote monitoring lead, supporting recruitment, retention, induction, job planning, appraisals and professional development.
• Collaborate with locality managers to optimise nursing workforce deployment for face to face care within the pathway.
• Maintain accountability for clinical governance in partnership with the Clinical Director, ensuring compliance with policies, pathways and quality standards.
• Drive innovation and integration across urgent and emergency care services, implementing proactive care models and supporting continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, represent at system level forums, and share best practice to influence service development.
• Promote quality improvement using the Trusts Quality Wheel process, oversee audit planning and ensure clinicians actively participate in performance reviews.
• Foster a positive working environment that prioritises health, wellbeing and safety for all staff.
• Act promptly when professional standards fall short, managing employee relations matters in line with Trust policies and supporting staff through coaching and mentoring.
• Maintain personal and professional development, encourage staff training and embed a culture of learning and improvement.

Person Specification NMC Registration and Experience

• NMC Registered.
• Experience in Community Setting.
• 2 years experience in a senior clinical role.

Desirable

• Previous experience in an emergency care setting or virtual ward.

Qualifications Essential

• Degree or Equivalent Experience.

Leadership and Management Essential

• Evidence of leadership experience.
• Evidence of leading a team including recruitment and staff development.

Desirable

• Leadership Qualification.

Clinical Quality Essential

• Evidence of delivering a quality improvement project.
• Experience of audit, pathway and policy development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

Abel Smith House

Gunnels Wood Road

Stevenage

SG1 2ST

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Deputy Director of Operations Adult Services

£55,690 to £62,682 per annum, pro rata